General PDF of ImBlaze Pitch Deck

1. Scaling schools’ ability to build
social capital
with a student-driven
Internship Management platform

2. A seismic shift is
happening within
education….
New York
State Law
Executive Order
Increasing
Apprenticeships
(USA)
ImBlaze enables
schools to shift practice
to support the building
of social capital… we are becoming
aware that students
should graduate with
knowledge and networks.
New
Hampshire
Learn
Everywhere
.
Apprenticeship
Levy (UK)

3. What
students
know
How
students
engage
Who
students
know
IQ EQPast
focus
of
school
Present
focus
of
school
The Time
is Right to
Reinvent
School

4. What
students
know
How
students
engage
Who
students
know
IQ EQPast
focus
of
school
Present
focus
of
school
The Time
is Right to
Reinvent
School

5. What
students
know
How
students
engage
Who
students
know
Enter & Complete College
Find & Sustain Work
Develop Career
Find Partners
Sustain Long Term Health
and Happiness
IQ EQPast
focus
of
school
Present
focus
of
school
The Time
is Right to
Reinvent
School

6. What
students
know
How
students
engage
Who
students
know
Enter & Complete College
Find & Sustain Work
Develop Career
Find Partners
Sustain Long Term Health
and Happiness
IQ EQ
FQ
Past
focus
of
school
Present
focus
of
school
Future focus of
school
The Time
is Right to
Reinvent
School

7. More and more schools are working hard to be not just the
source for what students know, but also the connector for
who students know.
Solving a
real problem
I know my students need real world mentors, inspiration, and social capital – but I have limited
network and time – not to mention the challenges of safety, accountability, and tracking of impact – no wonder we as
schools struggle to build internship programs.
ImBlaze brings this down from 10 hours per student to 3 hours,
saving our school thousands of hours.
For one school, 10 hours multiply by 30 kids, with average of 5 classrooms per year group, equals 1500 hours
– hours we don’t have.
Edwin, Teacher, Seattle, WA, USA
To arrange an internship for one student takes on average 10 hours.

8. The Solution
Students
Search easily
for potential internships
Log their daily
goals and accomplishments
Record their attendance location for
safety and accountability
Mentors
Give daily feedback
and endorse on
LinkedIn
Schools
Cultivate and easily
grow a network
Manage
attendance reports
& Compliance documents

9. Schools/Org around
US/Canada57
Student Accounts
14,200
Student Internship
Days70,000
Journey so far…
Platform is built
Methodology is proven
Scale is unlimited
18
Months

10. Current Development Funding

11. B2S validated
Lean operating expenses
$4 million
$500k committed
New customer segments:
Validate B2D
International schools
Corporate Clients
Tech Stack
Teacher mobile apps
Regional Platform
New hosting platform
New capacity/staff
Income raised
2.7million
Before
Ask
After
As we move into scaling
impact to thousands of
schools, we expect multiple
opportunities to partner with
large stakeholders in the
education market.
Year 3: 100 schools – 400k revenue
Ed Publishing Market (from
Pearson to Scholastic) having
to reinvent itself, in the shift
from conventional ‘learning
materials’ to ‘learning
experiences”

12. Metrics
97.5%$199K
Growth
churn
Acquisition
Value
10 million
Internships
Days
$400
Cost to acquire customers
2500
Number of Schools
Subscription
renewalCustomer
Lifetime Value

13. The Scale Challenge
1) Regional
Functionality
2) Localized Data
Hosting

14. Current ImBlaze Model
The Scale Challenge
• Currently, schools act
as the hub for building
student networks.
• As we grow, this leads
to siloed data and
schools competing for
professional networks
Regional Functionality

15. The Scale Challenge
• The solution is to build
a district/regional layer
to ImBlaze
Regional Functionality • Enabling regional org’s to curate
and coordinate opportunities
• Empowers regional org’s to own
and improve equity
Future ImBlaze Model
Regional Org

16. The Scale Challenge
Currently, BPL hosts all
ImBlaze data
Localized Data Hosting
• reduces scale because
of regional data
compliance rules
• limits other org’s from
capturing their own
data story
• prevents platform
customization Current ImBlaze Model

17. The Scale Challenge
Currently, BPL hosts all
ImBlaze data
Localized Data Hosting
Enable other
organizations to host
their own instance
Future Multi Org ImBlaze Model

18. • discovery
• permissioning
• terms and privacy
• engineering
• customer support
capacity
Regional
Functionality
Localized Data
Hosting
• discovery
• compliance review
• development of
deployment process
• engineering

19. David Berg
Director of Technology
Product Owner for ImBlaze
12 years teaching experience
10 years leadership experience
Andrew Frishman
Harvard Ed.Ld.
Co ED of BPL 10 years
Classroom experience
Raised 2.7 m in ImBlaze investment
Elliot Washor
BPL Co Founder
Ed.D.
30 years school reformer
Recognized as 1 of 12 most
Daring Educators by Lucas
Education Foundation
Anna Pirog
ImBlaze ImplementationManager
7 years implementation experience
11 years non-profit management
Capacity and capabilities we are building
Engineering Biz DevSales / Marketing

21. www.imblaze.org
david@imblaze.org